questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on legal aid for appeals to (a) sentences and (b) convictions from the magistrates' court to the Crown Court in each of the last five years.
answerText: The information can be found in the tables below. The 2020-21 and 2021-22 decrease is likely reflective of the fact that there were fewer cases throughout the magistrates’ court as a whole due to COVID-19. As such there are fewer cases capable of being ap...
heading: Prison Sentences: Appeals